Geoffrey Rush Says Australia is Obsessed With Fame

Geoffrey Rush Says Australia is Obsessed With Fame
Veteran actor Geoffrey Rush has claimed Australia is now obsessed with fame. He said the country now focuses on celebrity and red carpet goings-on rather than creative movie-making. Rush said recently: "When I was starting out in film no-one knew who Toni Collette was, no-one knew who Baz Luhrmann was, no-one knew who I was. We were just the right people in the right place and the right actors for specific roles that made those films into something we all became terribly, terribly proud of." He continued: "I'm not disparaging the commerciality of certain areas of cinema because I go to the biggest blockbusters as much as the next person, [but] we shouldn't be distracted by thinking we have to make high-powered commercial box office success films. I just think we need to try to keep pursuing that kind of fundamental creative endeavour." The Pirates of the Caribbean star is one of 16 actors to have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony award.
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